The influence of life history and diet on the distribution of catarrhine primates during the Pleistocene in eastern Asia
The influence of life history and diet on the distribution of catarrhine primates during the Pleistocene in eastern Asia
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DOI：
10.1006/jhev.2000.0405
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发表时间：
2000-08-01
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3.2
通讯作者：
Xu, QQ
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作者：
Jablonski, NG;Whitfort, MJ;Xu, QQ
更新世东亚地区的环境变化对哺乳动物群的分布产生了深远的影响。对许多哺乳动物来说，关键是热带和亚热带植被带的南移，以及这些区域面积的减少。检查的成员的一个单一的分支，Catarrhini的反应，表明东亚的主要catarrhine属个别更新世的环境变化。这些反应的影响，生活史参数和饮食的属。那些动物（猕猴，叶猴）的妊娠时间较短，断奶期较短，出生间隔较短，种群的内在增长率较高，并且在季节性栖息地的各种植被上生存的能力受到的不利影响小于那些（长臂猿、猩猩和已灭绝的大型人科动物巨猿）的繁殖时间更长，人口增长的内在速度较低，对季节性较弱的环境中的高质量食物（特别是成熟水果）的偏好。原始人虽然显示出“超猿”的生活史参数，但越来越多地通过其他卡他类动物所不具备的体外手段来克服这些参数的限制。这种能力使得它们在晚更新世时能够定居在像苔原这样的季节性很强的栖息地，而苔原是不允许无文化的卡他鼻类动物进入的。(C)北京大学出版社.
Environmental changes during the Pleistocene in eastern Asia had profound impacts on the distributions of mammalian groups. Critical for many mammals were the southward latitudinal shifts of the tropical and subtropical vegetational zones, and decreases in the areas of these zones. Examination of the responses of members of a single clade, the Catarrhini, indicates that the main catarrhine genera of eastern Asia responded individually to the environmental changes in the Pleistocene. These responses were influenced by the life history parameters and diets of the genera involved. Those animals (macaques, langurs) with shorter gestation times, shorter weaning periods, shorter interbirth intervals, higher intrinsic rates of increase of population, and abilities to survive on a wider variety of vegetation in seasonal habitats were less adversely affected than those (gibbons, orang-utans and the giant extinct hominoid, Gigantopithecus) with more protracted reproductive schedules, lower intrinsic rates of population increase and preferences for the higher quality foods (especially ripe fruits) of less seasonal environments. Hominids, while displaying "hyper-ape" life history parameters, increasingly overcame the constraints of these parameters through extrasomatic means not available to other catarrhines. This ability made possible their colonization, by the Late Pleistocene, of highly seasonal habitats such as tundra, which were off-limits to non-culture-bearing catarrhines. (C) 2000 Academic Press.